Bailey

anonymouscuban

Here are a few of the set I took of Bailey yesterday. The goal of this session was to get at least one good headshot. I'll be honest, I've never shot a headshot for a child so I just set out to get a quality photo of her that allows her natural personality to show through. I hope I hit the mark with at least one. Admittedly, some of these are not headshots but I can't help to take pics of this little girl.

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5. - My absolute favorite!!! :barb


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jonh68

3 is just about perfect. Great use of natural light to highlight her.

anonymouscuban

Thanks John.

VayCayMom

Brilliant and refreshing, everything works. Looks like real fun as well. Congrats, I adore #3 due to the sun in her hair.

anonymouscuban

Thanks Trudy.

Got some work in with the wide angle too:

lilmomma

what a beauty! love the lighting in 3 and the expression in 6.

divamum

3 is great. Crop it in some more, and you have a perfect headshot. The others are also stunning - that child is SOOOOO expressive! Cute to see her growing up, too.

anonymouscuban

Thanks Momma and Diva.

Diva, I left some room since I don't know what dimensions they will be printed on. Are headshots typically 8x10?

Gotham

Headshots are typically 8x10, but they often are printed with a border, so the frame can be 4:5, 3:4 or 2:3. I'm not loving the skin tones -- on my monitor, the color balance is way on the green side -- and 1 & 2 look over-exposed. But otherwise, it's a great set.

anonymouscuban

Gotham wrote: »

Headshots are typically 8x10, but they often are printed with a border, so the frame can be 4:5, 3:4 or 2:3. I'm not loving the skin tones -- on my monitor, the color balance is way on the green side -- and 1 & 2 look over-exposed. But otherwise, it's a great set.

Thanks Gotham.

Hmm... is your monitor calibrated?

Both skin tone and exposure are good on my calibrated monitor at home and even on both my shit monitors at work. And I had no blinkies on the histogram on any of these photos in PS and LR.

divamum

Gotham wrote: »

Headshots are typically 8x10, but they often are printed with a border, so the frame can be 4:5, 3:4 or 2:3.

I'd bring it in quite a lot - focus for a headshot needs to be on the subject rather than "subject and environs" (beautifully though you have framed it inside the treelines). You could even try that one as a portrait crop of just her - I personally love landscape orientation headshots, but that one can probably go either way and still be terrific. #1 could probably do the same.

As with the other flare set, I think the black point could be upped just a tad - not sure if that will address the green-ness that Gotham is seeing (which I only see in the wide-angle swing shot) but it will prevent the hazy look. My monitor currently needs to be recalibrated as it hasn't been done in a while, so if it looks good on all of yours, it's probably good to go

anonymouscuban

Diva... this is a different shot than #1 but talking crops, is this tight enough?

divamum

It's absolutely adorable... but I think you can still come in closer if you have the pixel density to do so. How does it looks in a vertical orientation, possibly even cutting into her camera right arm?

anonymouscuban

Diva,

Those crops are right out of camera so I have plenty of pixel room to crop. I also have a vertical shot.

Here is #3 cropped a bit:


And here is the vertical shot cropped a bit: